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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Eat Your Fingers Off
In 1987, KFC opened its first outlet in China, a chicken nugget's throw away from Chairman Mao's mausoleum in the middle of Tiananmen Square. Now, 25 years later, KFC is the premier fast food chain in the country, generating almost $2 billion in annual profit (for reference, that is more than is made by all of the KFCs, Taco Bells, Pizza Huts, Read more [...]
Posted in Columns, Creative Writing, Ryan
Tagged kfc, language, nabokov, translation, word
The Spirit of the Rule
Today my girlfriend Anna asked me to accompany her to her Speech Language Pathology clinic so that she could get some work done. Since I didn’t have anything else on my plate, I figured I’d tag along (wait, how did I end up being the one driving?) and use the time to write something for this glorious website of ours. Read more [...]
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Mad Respect
This edition of my thoughts on whatever is at my finger tips as they mount the keyboard is focused on the idea of respect. Now, since I’m not a very learned person with respect to vocabulary, insomuch as I don’t know every definition to every word, so I’ve taken to dictionary.com to provide myself with the various definitions of respect.
re·spect [ri-spekt]
noun
1. a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in ): todiffer in some respect.
2. relation or reference: inquiries with respect to a route.
3. esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of aperson, a personal quality Read more [...]
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Posted in Columns, Mark, Miscellaneous